There’s a ton of Grand Theft Auto V news to get to. This is a biggie for sure. It’s an amazing interview with Aaron Garbut, who in Rockstar North‘s Art Director.
Key details revealed from his interview:

• unlimited draw distance
• the entire game world is hand crafted
• they considered the placement of tree
• there is always something to discover
• amazing sense of scale
• you can fly high in the air at one corner of the map, look over the miles of city and skyscrapers, over the hills and desert to the furthest ridges of the most distant mountains
• Aaron Garbut says that he’s lived more in the game world than he had in Edinburgh over the past several years

Read the full interview here on Buzzfeed. It’s an amazing read. It makes you realize that this game will have the more incredible replay value than any other video game in history.

Here is a nice piece of work. It’s a video which is like a flythrough/walkthrough of the entire GTA 5 map. They’ve put the screenshot location photos and then show the view from the 3D model perspective. This gives you a great idea of what the map will be like. I think it’s safe to say it’s accurate based on the details throughout the internet so far. Watch!

This is quite a hilarious video. I wasn’t sure what to think, but it’s very well done and it’s a “must see” as we seek new details or videos. This is a pretty interesting “take” from older folks who aren’t exactly the target market for the Grand Theft Auto series. An understatement? Yep, big time. There are some real great nuggests in there. Hope you enjoy it!

There is some speculation about the Australian version of Grand Theft Auto 5 and whether it will be released in its original form. This is because Australia has a strict policy regarding video game violence and some games have been required to remove certain content. That said, official word comes from Rockstar via their Twitter feed that the game will be rated R18+ in Australia and it will be “in its complete, original form in Australia”. Great news for GTA fans because a masterpiece like this deserves to be in its purist and raw form.

@john_s_wood GTAV has been rated in its complete, original form in Australia at R18+.

— Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) August 7, 2013

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. has files some WIPO complaints against a number of GTA V related websites lately. The most recent site being target by take-two is GTAV.com. Previously they have gone after and shut down the following sites: gta5betacode.com, getgtavbeta.com, betagtav.com and grandtheftauto5beta.com. It’s understandable that the fake beta sites could be shut down, but I’m interested in the GTAV.com legal battle. See the case details here. Let’s hope that they don’t open hunting season on fan sites!

This is by no means an official statement, but it’s just an educated guess. The guys at gadgetmill.co.uk have made a case to suggest that the next GTA game will run at 720p and not 1080p. Is this a big deal? I would say no considering the age of the PS3 and Xbox 360. If this is the case, then certainly having the Xbox One and PS4 versions that are capable of 1080p would be quite the selling point!